Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, became a rare case of an American citizen serving as a foreign head of state.

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...

This week, a popular South County eatery was severely damaged by a fire, a verdict was reached in the Aaron Thomas trial, an ...

Vice President JD Vance spoke with Ross Douthat on his "Interesting Times" podcast after meeting with the new pope.

Four students from Los Angeles-area Catholic high schools will visit the Vatican to participate in a memorial service for Pope Francis while hoping to meet the new head of the Catholic Church, the Los ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

Pope Leo XIV Thursday appointed Michael Pham, previously auxiliary bishop of San Diego and diocesan administrator, as the Bishop of San Diego.

During a meeting in the Oval Office with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, President Donald Trump berated an NBC ...

"Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own," wrote Pope Leo XIII, in his famous 1891 encyclical Rerum ...

JD Vance met with Catholic leader Pope Leo where the two talked about a number of topic, alongside Marco Rubio ...

NBC News earlier reported that the two top ... Vance, who is Catholic, met briefly with Pope Francis before his death last month. The vice president, Rubio and second lady Usha Vance will be ...